Erli Grünzweil (b. 1992) is photographer and art director based in Vienna. His work lies at the intersection of observational and staged photography. He is questioning the medium itself through bringing it to its boundaries—the boundaries of lens-based and computer-generated pictures, static and moving images, fact and fiction, fine art and applied photography. The outcome are hybrids which seemingly show ordinary situations or random things, but through aesthetics, types of image production and context it goes deeper and addresses social, political and personal matters. Working for magazines like Zeit Magazin, Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Die Zeit, Zeit Campus, FAZ Quarterly or Das Magazin.
Opposite Sports Club by Stefanie Wurnitsch and Felix Malmborg
2021
FZ No. 19 by Ferrari Zöchling
Textile Prints and Model: Bettina Willnauer
Special Thanks: Lino Gasparitsch
2021
Em-Dash Scarf Baroness Elsa v. Freytag-Loringhoven by Astrid Seme
Assistance: Muhassad Al-Ani
2021
This em-dash is a homage to Dadaist artist and poet Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874 – 1927). Her poems; performances; costumes and lifestyle all made a point of challenging established bourgeois artistic and moral conventions with an unapologetically feminist, proto-punk aesthetic. Elsa’s ‘signature’ in writing was her manic use of em dashes within her poems. In a quick and simple dash, Elsa had found the perfect material for an expansive range of meaning. The em dash is flexible, working as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space.
Souvenirs of Loneliness by Nadja Zerunian and Anna Zimmermann
Assistance: Nora Hollstein
2020
Gedichte und Gerichte
Calendar 2021, 23 × 21 cm
Gedichte: Amelie Schlögelhofer
Gerichte: Susanna Hofer
Photography: Susanna Hofer and Erli Grünzweil
Art Direction: Erli Grünzweil
2021
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And we give thee knowledge for Hot Potato
Assistance: Muhassad Al-Ani
2020
Good Vids, Vile Times for Ant Antic
Art Direction and Artwork
2020
Installation World Wide Washing by easycenter.eu
2020
FAZ Quarterly asked me about the future after covid-19. During isolation I took this image and tried to stay positive and imagine a world I’m longing for. A world which will keep on turning even though a little bit slower and more cautious with a more kind, sustainable and conscious society.
Helping hand: Noah Brenner
2020
Ant Antic
2020
Oh My, Fly; 2020
pigment print on fine art paper, 24 × 18 cm, framed (blue), edition of 10 (+2)
Untitled from Mundane Confusion Constant Mystification, 2018
pigment print on fine art paper, 56 × 45 cm, framed (oak natural) with exhibition glass, edition of 10 (+2)
Untitled from Mundane Confusion Constant Mystification, 2018
pigment print on fine art paper, 56 × 45 cm, framed (oak natural) with exhibition glass, edition of 10 (+2)
Untitled from Mundane Confusion Constant Mystification, 2018
pigment print on fine art paper, 56 × 45 cm, framed (oak natural) with exhibition glass, edition of 10 (+2)
Pink Plastic Bag, 2017
pigment print on fine art paper, 56 × 45 cm, edition of 10 (+2)
2020
CCA Jury Member for Photography and Illustration
Dec 2019–Feb 2020
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Graphic Design, Munich
since 2016
Applied Photography and Time-based Media at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
2014–2016
Graphic Designer at Monopol Medien, Vienna
2012–2014
College for Graphic Design, Linz
Editorial
Zeit Magazin, Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Die Zeit, FAZ Quarterly, Das Magazin, Gossamer, Zeit Campus, der Freitag, Die Presse Schaufenster, The Gap, Chapter, Emotion
Clients
Ant Antic, brut Vienna, easycenter.eu, Ferrari Zöchling, Hutchison Drei, Hot Potato Newspaper, moodley vienna, OrtnerSchinko, Anna Paul, Standard Experimente, SZ Magazin Shop, Walde Seifen, Nadja Zerunian, Anna Zimmermann
Publications
Gediche und Gerichte, self-published, 2020
Temporäre Unordnung, De Gruyter, 2020
Tippgemeinschaft 2020, 2020
DISZIPLIN, Pool Publishing, 2020
Dreaming Is Okay, self-published, 2019
Der Standard ALBUM, 2019
uppers & downers Magazine, 2019
Interviews, Texts and Features
C41 Magazine, 2021
Diversions Gallery, 2020
Booooooom, 2020
C41 Magazine, 2020
Der Standard RONDO, 2020
The Gap, Wortwechsel, 2019
Die Presse Schaufenster, 2019
Latest Exhibitions
Off Grid Festival w/ Fountain’s Edit, Die Schöne, Vienna/AT
Dreaming Is Okay, Vienna Design Week, Vienna/AT
Propeller, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna/AT
81 Steps, Ausstellung in der Lindengasse 1, Vienna/AT
Realities, Forward Festival, Vienna/AT
Studio Protest, Vienna Design Week, Vienna/AT
Realities, Burggasse98/Improper Walls, Vienna/AT
F5, Shizzle, Vienna/AT